Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

McMurdo says it is critical that large institutional investors unite if they are to realise change. McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans. Disputing divestment. And McMurdo’s caution about divestment is not limited to the energy sectors.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Investors continue to suffer from poor-quality climate-related information in company reports and other statements, particularly from firms with the highest CO2 emissions. That’s the finding of a major new report by Carbon Tracker, the independent think tank that researches the effects of climate change on financial markets.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster. The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

Investor engagement with companies on climate change has come under the spotlight, with some warning of shortcomings with current processes. The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. How should engagement work in principle?

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, institutional investors have a crucial role to play in driving sustainable practices and advancing climate actions. This resulted in concerns over greenwashing accusations and uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of sustainable investments.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing? In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

The DWP issued a consultation last October on proposed changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021 to require trustees to calculate and disclose a portfolio alignment metric to show alignment with the goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Perhaps more encouragingly, almost a fifth of shareholders voted in favour of resolutions calling on ExxonMobil and Shell to accurately disclose the role of asset transfers in their reported GHG emissions reductions, which would stop them claiming CO2 cuts from divestments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The magnitude of private sector firepower committed to addressing climate change now lies broadly in line with requirements to reach a low-carbon economy. It explains why activists and the public demand that the finance sector does more to address climate change. Engagement ring.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

along with ongoing corporate greenwashing and fossil-fuel disinformation, it’s sometimes hard to tell if society is moving forward or slipping back. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” You follow the money, of course. through those years.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

The responsibilities of universal owners such as Temasek are clear to Franziska Zimmermann, Director for Sustainability & Climate Change Strategy and ESG Investment Management. “As Nietsch agreed: “Nature issues tend to be so complex and systemic that divestment may have less of an effect than it might for climate.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Given the country’s status as the world’s largest emitter, the development is essential for progress against climate change. . And the mayors of 12 cities — representing 36 million residents — announced their plans to divest from fossil fuels. Were there other announcements this week?

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

For sustainable tech to be possible, funders, including investors, philanthropists, and foundations, must develop a two-pronged approach of intentional investments in those leading justice-centered approaches to technological and economic transitions and informed divestments from extractive and fossil-fuel-dependent systems and enterprises.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

The Bonn Climate Conference got under way this week by unveiling a new phase in accountability and transparency of non-state net zero commitments. As most lean toward engagement rather than divestment, not least because of the complexities of the latter, focus is needed perhaps as urgently at the policy level as much as the company level.

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